“On May 16, the ex-head of the regional branch of the Just Russia Political Party in the Udmurt Republic, a former senator from the UR, a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth and sixth convocations, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor Viktor Evgrafovich Shudegov passed away,” the statement said. on the website of the regional branch of the party "Fair Russia".
It is noted that Sudegov served as chairman of the committee of the Council of the Federation from 2002 to 2007.
From 2007 to 2016, he was Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education.
Earlier it became known that in Russia 113 people died per day with COVID-19, for the entire pandemic - 2418.